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Crucifixion
Watercolor
This image came to me one late
night at the Bishop's Ranch in Healdsburg during a Benedictine
Experience winter weekend. The image was so urgent and strong
that it demanded form: I stayed up way late working on the
piece.
The painting incorporates an
abstracted Christ hanging still on the Cross. The Circle
encompasses the Crucifixion and is intended to bring all
peoples, all beings into the center. God has sacrificed His
Son for our salvation, our work is to find the God in the
Stranger and Neighbor alike. Ubuntu is something of a web that
binds us all together.
In the Book of Common Prayer's Penitential Order, Rite II,
Jesus said:
The first commandment is this:
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is the only Lord. Love the
Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with
all your mind, and with all your strength. The Second is This:
Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other Commandment
greater than these. |
